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...Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) defended her vote against using force in Iraq last night and told a crowd at Harvard Law School (HLS) that the Bush administration is exploiting the Iraq issue for political gain...
...include Orange County (2002) and Shrek (2001). Well, I’m an actor and actors tend to learn a little bit about a lot of things but not a lot about anything. In an oddball career, I have played a butcher, a rugby player, a nuclear physicist, a boxer, and loads of other parts. So I can tell you a little bit about making sausages, playing rugby, building an A-bomb, and knocking someone out cold. But I can’t actually do any of those things. What don’t I know? Just about everything. What...
...bipartisan wave of support. In July the Republican-led House approved, by a 197-vote margin, a plan that would give a gun to any pilot who volunteered for and could pass weapons training. Now that the bill has locked up backing from anti-gun Democratic Senators Barbara Boxer of California and John Kerry of Massachusetts, the upper chamber will probably send it to the President for his signature. "All sides of the political spectrum recognize that pilots need to be able to defend the cockpit with lethal force," says Stephen Luckey, a former 747 captain who is the security...
...powerful national gun lobby, which says "thousands" of pilots are members, has pressed Congress hard, calling the issue "one of our top priorities." Boxer's decision to throw in her support because she was dissatisfied with the federal air-marshal program triggered bipartisan momentum...
...veers from history to biology to autobiography. But in the end Twigger's numerous digressions are worth the trip--like his set piece on the 11,000-volume Yung Lo Ta Tien encyclopedia, which contained the totality of Chinese culture before it was burned in the 1900 Boxer Rebellion. As every good traveler knows, some roads shouldn't be missed just because they don't lead anywhere...